Please read new forum guidelines...

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Nathyn

Nathyn

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...if you haven't, they're worth a look. I've been on DVXU for quite of few years and the User Film Forum has been a welcome edition. There's been a lot of good stuff here over the years and continues to be. If you did not know, there are new guidelines for the forum and they are very good and actually make starting a thread beneficial in more ways than one especially for those starting on features.

Also, I'd like to add a few helpful suggestions:

When doing your trailers and such, Vimeo's compression and HD seems to be a bit better than Youtube. Just a heads up on that because you want to show your stuff at it's best.

Artwork should be posted as a 72 - 150 dpi jpegs or PNGs. 300 dpi and above are for print and slows the site down for people on slow connections. You should center your art and embedded video with the "
" tag. The art should be about 800 x 500 pixels wide or somewhere in between. Anything too much wider than 800 pixels stretches the thread.

Good luck with your videos, commercials, shorts and feature films guys. I hope all goes well. Peace out.

-Nate​
 
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Nathyn said:
Artwork should be posted as a 72 - 150 dpi jpegs or PNGs. 300 dpi and above are for print and slows the site down for people on slow connections.
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The dpi won't affect that at all, because the dpi only matters when it's printed.

Both of these images are 600x323, and 113kb (I saved them at the highest JPEG setting in Photoshop). The first is 72dpi, while the second is 300dpi. For the sake of comparison, open each one as a new tab, and switch between the two; they look the same on your computer, but if you were to print them, the second would be about a third the size, but noticeably sharper.

So, I think what you mean to say is that you shouldn't post high-resolution images, as they "weigh" more than lower-resolution images.
 

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It's not about how the image looks, but the fact the higher DPI the image, the slower it downloads on slow connections. Don't know how much of an issue that is here, but something think about.

-Nate
 
It's not an issue here (or anywhere, for that matter), because your "fact" is erroneous.

What takes longer to load: A 113kb image or a 113kb image? Think about it.
 
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